Red Colored Elegy
Hayashi, Seiichi
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BOOK SYNOPSIS
A true cornerstone of the Japanese underground scene of the 1960sSeiichi Hayashi produced Red Colored Elegy between 1970 and 1971, in the aftermath of a politically turbulent and culturally vibrant decade that promised but failed to deliver new possibilities. With a combination of sparse line work and visual codes borrowed from animation and film, the quiet, melancholy lives of a young couple struggling to make ends meet are beautifully captured in this poetic masterpiece. Uninvolved with the political movements of the time, Ichiro and Sachiko hope for something better, but theyre no revolutionaries; their spare time is spent drinking, smoking, daydreaming, and sleepingtogether and at times with others. While Ichiro attempts to make a living from his comics, Sachikos parents are eager to arrange a marriage for her, but Ichiro doesnt seem interested. Both in their relationship and at work, Ichiro and Sachiko are unable to say the things they need to say, and like any couple, at times say things to each other that they do not mean, ultimately communicating as much with their body language and what remains unsaid as with words. Red Colored Elegy is informed as much by underground Japanese comics of the time as it is by the French nouvelle vague, and its cultural referents range from James Dean to Ken Takakura. Its influence in Japan was so great that Morio Agata, a prominent Japanese folk musician and singer/songwriter, debuted with a love song written and named after it.
AUTHOR BIO
Born in Manchuria in 1945, Seiichi Hayashi published his first comics work in Japans influential underground magazine Garo. A prolific artist, he is also a film and commercial director, a childrens book author, an animator, and an illustrator.
BOOK REVIEWS
I wanted to live like Sachiko and Ichiro; to have aspirations even while living stoically and humbly. Morio Agata (from obi)
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MORE BOOK INFO
ISBN: 1897299400
ISBN(13-digit): 9781897299401
Dewey Decimal: 741.5/952
Library of Congress: oc2007203431
Book Publisher: Farrar Straus & Giroux
Language: ENG
No. of Pages: 235
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